The riveting story, told by San Francisco''s first black police chief, of the racially-motivated serial killings--black on white--that terrorized the city in the winter of 1973-4, and how it was solved.

From the Publisher:Examines the 1973 San Francisco murder spree of four African-American youths who attempted to incite a race war by killing fifteen white people, and the investigation by African-American detectives Prentice Earl Sanders and Rotea Gilford.